Rosary
Workshop - Prayers index - family treeFAMILY
'FREEDOM' TREE - PRAYERSintercessory
prayers for family before your rosary - rememberingthat
freedom may be lost in on generation if not carried to theirchildren.
Read what President Reagan said below:

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~
LIVING
FAMILY 'FREEDOM' TREE ~

H.H.S.
MANDATECONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTSI hadn't thought
of sharing this generational (Family Tree) prayer until we were discussing
the new HHS MANDATE (Health and Human Services health bill and demands
on our Catholic community. and our Constitution) How Cardinal Dolan said:
"In effect, the president is saying we have a year to figure out how
to violate our consciences." Knowing if and when resolved there
will be more.+FAITH COMMUNITIES
MERGINGHow do we respond
to this Mandate or any to follow? Yet, regardless of our evangelical
faith communities we are hearning a call to unity . we are hearing a universal
response from our brothers and sisters of faith, Christians, Jews, all.
It is becoming a battle cry - "We are all Catholics now" These
merging faith communities are becoming one in voice against what is happening
to our Constitutional and moral rights one step at a time. This is not
the first issue nor will it be the last. Ronald Reagan said it well: +FREEDOM IS NOT PASSED THROUGH THE
BLOODSTREAMFreedom
is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass
it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected,
and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset
years telling our children and our children's children what it was once
like in the United States where men were free. (Ronald Reagan)+THANK THE LORD
THAT EACH ONE IN THE ROOT OF OUR FAMILY TREE(S) SAID YES TO LIFE, MAKING
OUR LIFE POSSIBLE. THANK YOU FOR ALL OUR SERVICE FAMILIES - MEN AND
WOMEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR OUR FREEDOM TODAY. MAY OUR YES TODAY GIVE
LIFE TO OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.+A GENERATIONALPRAYER BEFORE YOUR
ROSARY.Several years ago
I sensed the Lord give me a special prayer before my daily rosary.
Instead of just praying for 'my family', I was given a visual prayer of
a beautiful family tree along with several images which really organized
my family name by name. To incorporate into your family tree prayer,
simply make a list that works for you. (I will share in parentheses
how it worked for our family and you may adjust it to yours. May give you
some ideas.)+MAKE YOUR FAMILY LISTThe 4 images of
the tree helped simplify my family list and hope it will yours: 1.
LIVING BRANCHES
(living family members: children,
grandchildren) and 2. TRUNK, (transitional: present living
or recently passed spouse, etc.who represent the strength in the family)
3. LIVING ROOTS (deceased parents, grandparents, children, family
members and generations passed)
and 4. BUDS OF THOSE TO
COME (future generations). +YES TO LIFE LIVING FAMILY TREEThis page was
being constructed before the HHS Mandate was announced re governmental
interference with the First Amendment and our Constitution (Feb 2012).
When we realized what was being said in this Mandate we changed directions,
realizing this family tree prayer - the fact that we are here was because
past family members said
'Yes to life.' How important it is to teach the next generation to be aware
... (see links at the bottom of this page)

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seeBRANCHES
- TRUNK - LIVING
ROOTSNEW
BUDS ON THE FAMILY TREE+MORE
LINKSRead these responses
from leadership on the link below. think of those in your past who have
helped form who you are today and how you think in response to freedom.
What can you pass on to your friends, children, grandchildren, to help
form their future. Thank and pray for those who loved you and took
the time to help you understand what freedom means. See sharing freedom
with future generations below.

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BRANCHES
of
your FAMILY TREE ~

VISUALIZE THE BRANCHES

The sign of the
cross, thenNAME ALL LIVING
FAMILY MEMBERS(Church Militant)Name all family
members
still living: children / grandchildren / siblings / parents / grandparents
(For our family 12 children and mates, + 2, and 13 grand children)+THE YES TO LIFE: PRESENT, PAST, FUTURESee what you think
about this visual prayer as it brings a whole family together: those here
(Church Militant), those who have passed on (Church Penitent and Church
Triumphant) and those little ones who will be our future family.
Does it help us to understand how we are the Children of God and members
of the Mystical Body of Christ. How to involve our whole family in intercessory
prayer, especially for those of us who are still living. And how we are
called to say yes to life protecting the living from conception to natural
death.

~
TRUNK
of
the FAMILY TREE ~

VISUALIZE
THE TRUNK

. Continue
by recognizing FAMILY MEMBER(S)
WHO REPRESENT THE STRENGTH OR BACKBONE
OF YOUR FAMILY (Church Militant
or Penetint)Living or Dead,
remember by name family member(s) who supply (or supplied) strength nourish
your family.(for us it was my husband who
has passed but still, through intercessory prayer, still nourishes and
strengthens our family today)+IN A MYSTERIOUS WAYIn a mysterious
way, this FAMILY FREEDOM TREE prayer begins to break down the dimensions
of time and space, helping us to enter into a greater understanding of
the Mystical Body of Christ.

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BASKETS
UNDER THE TREE ~

NOT TO FORGET
OUR FRIENDSAnd then - there
was also an image of a beautiful hand made 'Spiritual Basket' to put all
those petitions in for those who I promised to remember and pray for that
day and forgot! I am learning to add each name to the spiritual basket
as the day goes along, knowing the Lord will know if I forget!+SET THIS SPIRITUAL BASKET UNDER THE TREE At the
end of the day, take the spiritual basket full of requests and mentally
set it under the protective, living branches, next to the trunk, and over
the living roots of your family tree. Say a prayer, asking all to keep
these prayers in their hearts. Intercede for them, present, past
and future, for their needs, for God's love, his healing grace and mercy
and covered by Mary's mantle of protection.

~
ROOTS
of
the FAMILY TREE ~

VISUALIZE
the LIVING ROOTS

Continue by recognizing FAMILY MEMBER(S)
WHO HAVE PASSED ONAND UPON WHOSE
SHOULDERS WE STAND TODAY. (Church Penitent
/ Church Triumphant)+Name
immediate kin who have died (from children, parents on both sides down
to grandparents, then down the living roots of the family tree - remembering
the living roots nourish the tree. Our relatives and ancestors are all
a loving, living part of the Mystical Body of Christ (Communion of Saints),
making up the Church Penitent (Purgatory) and the Church Triumphant (Heaven).
(for
us it is my husband who has passed but still, through intercessory prayer
nourishes and strengthens our family today, next dec. parents on both sides
and dec. grandparents on both sides. Then all relatives upon whose shoulders
we stand toady) +

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Because God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction
of the living. 14 For he fashioned all things that they might have being,
Wisdom 1:13-14

+THANK YOU FOR YOUR YES TO LIFEThank all ancestors
upon whose shoulders we stand today. Thank them for saying 'yes' to life.
Thank them for protecting our freedom. Thank them for loving us. And pray
for them asking the Lord to love and bless them in their needs with his
mercy and grace. +FULL CIRCLE OF PRAYERAsk for those in
your past generational family who can, to intercede for you and your familys
needs today. Ask all who have passed generation after generation down the
living roots of your family tree to also pray for those in your spiritual
basket.

~
NEW
BUDS on the TREE ~

VISUALIZE
THE FRUIT ON THE TREE

LITTLE
SPROUTS, THE FUTURE OF EACH FAMILY, THOSE YET TO COME+On completion,
begin your rosary+

JOHN
1:41-44 VISITATION
41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb,
and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, 42cried out in a loud voice
and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of
your womb.t 43And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord*
should come to me? 44For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached
my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy.

+ FREEDOM IS NOT
IN OUR DNA FREEDOM IS NOT
IN OUR BLOODSTREAMRemembering
what Ronald Reagan said at the top of this page about Freedom is not passed
through the bloodstream, that freedom is never more
than one generation away from extinction. What do I teach other generations?+

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